PAGE 12 - April 14, 2010
The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
YOUR COMMUNITY
MAY NEED YOU!
Levy County is establishing a new
Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps!
The Medical Reserve Corps is a formal
group of volunteers who are able and
willing to assist in the event of any
natural or man-made emergency that
overwhelms local medical capability.
This new program is in need of both
medical and non-medical volunteers!
Quilter Takes Top Honors -
The Levy County Fair and Agricultural Show
awarded top honors to Ms. Barbara Barter of Rutland, Vermont April 11th, 2010. Ms. Bar-
To learn more about the MRC, go to
ter’s submission is an elaborate, hand embroidered and hand/machine-quilted ‘flower gar-
www.Medicalreservecorps.gov/about.
den.’ Won were First Place [Quilting], Best of Division and Best of Show. ‘Barbara’s Flower
Garden’ required two year’s work or an estimated 500 hours labor. Ms. Barter hand embroi-
dered the center medallion with fountains flowing silver water (complete with tiny rocks
If you are ready to volunteer, call:
under the fountain), flowering vines and all manner of garden ‘critters’ woven into the work.
Fred Eichler, MRC coordinator
The critters include swarming bees with hives, rabbits with hutches, frogs, dragon-
352334-8821,
flies, butterflies, moths, lady bugs and other flying or crawling insects as well as garden tools,
cats and dogs. You’d have to look carefully to find all of the quilt’s features!
[red eichler@doh.state.fl.us
Ms. Barter is visiting the Chiefland, FL area with friends to recover from Vermont’s
OR
recent cold winter. Ms. Barter’s Rutland, Vermont home-- nestled in a scenic mountain val-
call the Levy County Health Dept. at:
ley-- had five solid weeks of temperatures below zero-- and it’s still freezing periodically
352 486-5300 Ext. 232
there!
Selection Process  - Continued from page 12
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